In Photos: A Layer of Crystal-Clear Ice and the Andes Mountain

Shortlisted, Nerc colleagues, families and friends category: Birchlight by Carol Cotterill, Edinburgh.

“Even in the worst weather there is beauty in the stark landscape around us. Birch trees clinging to the side of a glacial finger lake shone through the rain as we surveyed the lake during research into glacial processes.”
Photograph: Carol Cotterill/NERC Science photo competition